Mutilation

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mutilation \Mu`ti*la"tion\, n. [L. mutilatio: cf. F.
     mutilation.]
     The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated;
     deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mutilation
       n : an injury that deprives you of a limb or other important
           body part

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  134 Moby Thesaurus words for "mutilation":
     abrasion, abscission, amputation, annihilation, bankruptcy,
     blemish, bowlegs, break, breakage, breakdown, burn, butchering,
     camelback, chafe, check, chip, chopping, cleavage, cleft palate,
     clubfoot, collapse, concussion, crack, crack-up, crackle, craze,
     crippling, crookback, cut, cutting, damage, defacement,
     deformation, deformity, destruction, detriment, dichotomy,
     dilapidation, disablement, disfigurement, disrepair, elimination,
     encroachment, enucleation, eradication, excision, exclusion,
     extinction, extirpation, fission, flash burn, flatfoot, fracture,
     fray, frazzle, freakishness, gall, gash, harelip, harm, hobbling,
     humpback, hunchback, hurt, hurting, impairment, incapacitation,
     incision, infringement, injury, inroad, knock-knee, kyphosis,
     laceration, lesion, lordosis, loss, maiming, malconformation,
     malformation, mayhem, mischief, misproportion, misshape,
     monstrosity, mortal wound, puncture, rending, rent, rescission,
     resection, rip, ripping, ruination, ruinousness, run, rupture,
     sabotage, scald, scathe, scission, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff,
     second-degree burn, section, severance, sickening, slash, slashing,
     slicing, sore, splayfoot, splitting, spoiling, stab, stab wound,
     surgery, swayback, talipes, tear, tearing, teratology,
     third-degree burn, torticollis, trauma, truncation, valgus,
     weakening, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wryneck
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MUTILATION, crim. law. The depriving a man of the use of any of those limbs, 
  which may be useful to him in fight, the loss of which amounts to mayhem. 1 
  Bl. Com. 130.